Local Lucene Codebase IP Clearance

Local Lucene Codebase Intellectual Property (IP) Clearance Status

Description

Local Lucene is a contrib module for Lucene Java that provides Local search capabilities (i.e. results ranked by location.) It was written at AOL and is
licensed under ASL 2.0 and LGPL. The LGPL portions are in process of being removed or externalized.

Project info

Lucene

Into which existing project/module: TBD

Officer or member managing donation: Grant Ingersoll

Completed tasks are shown by the completion date (YYYY-MM-dd).

Identify the codebase

date

item

2008-06-25

Local Lucene as designated at https://locallucene.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/locallucene and https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INCUBATOR-77

Copyright

Check and make sure that the papers that transfer rights to
the ASF been received. It is only necessary to transfer
rights for the package, the core code, and any new code
produced by the project.

2008-07-28

Check and make sure that the files that have been donated
have been updated to reflect the new ASF copyright.

Identify name recorded for software grant: the name of the grant as record
in the grants.txt document so that the grant can be easily identified

Verify distribution rights

Corporations and individuals holding existing distribution rights:

For individuals, use the name as recorded on the committers page

date

item

2008-06-25

Check that all active committers have a signed CLA on
record.

2008-06-25

Remind active committers that they are responsible for
ensuring that a Corporate CLA is recorded if such is
required to authorize their contributions under their
individual CLA.

2008-09-03 -- There is a dependency on LPGL code that will be removed before release.

Check and make sure that for all items included with the
distribution that is not under the Apache license, we have
the right to combine with Apache-licensed code and
redistribute.

2008-09-11 -- There is a dependency on LGPL code that will be removed before release

Check and make sure that all items depended upon by the
project is covered by one or more of the following approved
licenses: Apache, BSD, Artistic, MIT/X, MIT/W3C, MPL 1.1, or
something with essentially the same terms.

Generally, the result of checking off these items will be a
Software Grant, CLA, and Corporate CLA for ASF licensed code,
which must have no dependencies upon items whose licenses that
are incompatible with the Apache License.

Organizational acceptance of responsibility for the project

Related VOTEs:

The VOTE thread accepting the donation may happen either
before or after IP clearance. Adoption by lazy concensus is acceptable but
not recommended.